Biography | Edward Labaton

EDWARD LABATON is an accomplished trial lawyer and Senior Partner Labaton Sucharow LLP, He has devoted his 50 years of practice to representing a full range of clients in class action and complex litigation matters in state and federal court .Since its founding in 1996 he has been President of ILEP He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance of the University of Delaware, a Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law, a member of the American Law Institute, and a life member of the ABA Foundation. In addition, Mr. Labaton has served on the Executive Committee and has been an officer of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund since its inception in 1996.

Mr. Labaton is the past Chairman of the Federal Courts Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association, and was a member of the Board of Directors of that organization. He is an active member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he was Chair of the Senior Lawyers’ Committee and served on its Task Force on the Role of Lawyers in Corporate Governance. He has also served on its Federal Courts, Federal Legislation, Securities Regulation, International Human Rights and Corporation Law Committees. He also served as Chair of the Legal Referral Service Committee, a joint committee of the New York County Lawyers’ Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He has been an active member of the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Council and the New York State Bar Association, where he has served as a member of the House of Delegates.

For more than 40 years, he has lectured in the areas of federal civil litigation, securities litigation and corporate governance. Mr. Labaton graduated cum laude with a B.B.A. from Baruch College, City College of New York in 1952 and earned his LL.B. from Yale University in 1955. He is admitted to practice in New York and the United States Supreme Court.